The Sentrymen

Every winter stately homes around the country wrap Greek and Italian Renaissance influenced statues for protection from the frost, normally considered a thing of beauty, the new shrouded figures silently guard the pathways and boarders of these majestic gardens and homes through the bleakest time of the year.

The shrouded tall figure has been a popular character through culture and literature for century’s from the ferryman of the River Stix in the myths of Ancient Greece, the Grim Reaper in European culture originating around the time of The Black Death, through to contemporary figures of the Ringwraiths of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. In all these cases the same idea has been within the character, sightless but ever watchful of all around them, intent on their task to see those of this world onto the next.